BUD 



BUD 



and having thus exactly fitted the bud to the 

 stock, tie them closely round with bass mat, 

 beginning at the under part of the slit, and 

 proceed to the top, being careful not to bind 

 round the eye of the bud, which must be left 

 open and free. 



But though it is the ordinary practice to divest 

 the bud of that part of the wood which was 

 taken from the shoot with it; in many sorts of 

 tender trees, it is better to preserve a little wood 

 to the bud, without which they often miscarry. 

 This has occasioned some to imagine that some 

 sorts of trees are not capable of being propagated 

 by budding. 



After the buds have been inserted three weeks 

 or a month, they should be examined, to see 

 which of them have taken ; those which appear 

 shrivelled and black, being dead., but those 

 which remain fresh and plump have joined. 

 At this time the bandage should be loosened, 

 which, if not done in time, is apt to pinch 

 the stock, and greatly injure if not destroy the 

 bud. 



In the following March, cut oft* the stock 

 about three inches above the bud, in a sloping 

 manner, that the wet may pass oft", and not 

 enter the stock; to the part of the stock left 

 above the bud, the shoot which proceeds from 

 the bud, which would otherwise be in danger of 

 being blown out, may be tied the first year ; 

 after which it should be cut oft" close above the 

 bud, that the stock may be covered bv it. Some 

 however think it a better practice to cut it close 

 at once. 



After this, the whole effort of the stock is 

 directed to the inserted buds ; they soon push 

 forth strong, one shoot from each; many shoots 

 also arise from the stock ; but these should be 

 constantly rubbed off as often as they appear, 

 that all the powers of the stock may be col- 

 lected for the vigour of the bud-shoot, which 

 now commences the tree, and by the end of 

 summer is in some sorts advanced three or four 

 feet high ; and in the autumn or spring fol- 

 lowing, the young trees may be transplanted 

 into the places where they are to remain, or 

 may remain longer in the nursery, accord- 

 ing to the purposes for which they are de- 

 signed. 



Where the trees are of the fruit kinds, and de- 

 signed for walls, espaliers, or dwarfs, the first 

 shoot from the bud should, in the spring after 

 it is produced, be headed down to four or five 

 eyes, to force out first some lower shoots near 

 the bottom; but if designed for half or full 

 standards, and budded at proper heights, at 

 first in tall stocks; the first shoot of the bud 

 may either be shortened to four or five eyes, to 

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provide lateral branches near the top of the stem, 

 to form a spreading head; or may be suffered to 

 grow up in height, and branch out in its natural 

 way, by which it will form a more erect head, 

 of loftier growth. Such full or half standards 

 as are designed for walls, and which were 

 budded high on the stocks, must, however, ne- 

 cessarily have the first shoots headed down in the 

 spring following, to force out lateral shoots to 

 furnish the allotted space of walling. 



But where trees are designed for any sort of 

 standards, and budded low in the stock, the 

 first shoot of the bud must be trained up for a 

 stem to a proper height before it is stopped; and 

 when arrived at its proper stature, be topped to 

 throw out shoots to form a head at the desired 

 height. See Dwarf-trees, Espaliers, 

 Wall-trees, and Standard-trees. 



BUDDLEA, a genus comprehending plants 

 of the shrubby exotic green-house kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Telrandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Pcraonatce. 



The characters of which are : that the calyx 

 is a very small, four-cleft, acute, erect, per- 

 manent perianthium : the corolla is monope- 

 talous, bell-form, four-cleft half way, erect, 

 three times greater than the calyx : divisions 

 ovate, straight acute : the stamina consist of 

 four very short filaments placed at the divisions 

 of the corolla : the anthers are very short, and 

 simple: the pistilluin is an ovate germ: the 

 style simple, shorter by half than the corolla : 

 the stigma obtuse: the pericarpium is an ovate 

 capsule, oblong, two-furrowed, two-celled : 

 the seeds numerous, extremely minute; adhering 

 to a fungous receptacle. 



The species cultivated are; 1. B. Americana, 

 Long-spiked American Buddlea; 2. B. occide/i- 

 ialis, Spear-leavcd Eastern Buddlea ; 3. B t glo- 

 boid, Round-headed Buddlea; 4. jB. salvifoHa t 

 Sage-leaved Buddlea. 



The first rises with a whitish woody stem from 

 four to eight or ten feet in height, which is 

 branched, and all over hoary : the leaves are 

 ovate-lanceolate, opposite, serrate: the flowers 

 are in long, slender spikes, axillary and termi- 

 nating} composed of little, opposite, many- 

 flowered, crowded racemes : the corolla is cori- 

 aceous, scarcely longer than the calyx : the 

 divisions are upright, yellow within, and hoary 

 on the outside. It is a native of America. 



The second species rises much taller than the 

 above, and divides into a great number of 

 slender branches, which are covered with a 

 russet hairy bark, with long spear-shaped leaves 

 ending in sharp points: these grow opposite at 

 every joint j at the end of the branches are. pro- 



